Requirements Management Contract Job Trends in England

Requirements Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Requirements Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 457 422
Rank change year-on-year +9 -35 +159
Contract jobs citing Requirements Management 62 72 175
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.22% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.26% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 29 109
10th Percentile £397 £455 £448
25th Percentile £443 £475 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% -12.40% +9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £650
90th Percentile £671 £561 £709
UK median daily rate £492 £504 £575
% change year-on-year -2.32% -12.40% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 10
10th Percentile £70.00 - £57.99
25th Percentile £70.88 £37.55 £61.25
Median hourly rate £72.50 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.99% -28.95% -
75th Percentile £74.38 £66.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.25 £80.50
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £50.59 £65.00
% change year-on-year +43.31% -22.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Requirements Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,363 27,854 36,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.87% 86.49% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,091 16,993 25,095
10th Percentile £293 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £652
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,593 1,122 1,465
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.14 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +38.38%
75th Percentile £44.81 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.45 £74.40 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -37.13% -9.60% +37.21%

Requirements Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Requirements Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Requirements Management job vacancy trend in England

Requirements Management
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Requirements Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Requirements Management

Requirements Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Management in England over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Management in England

Requirements Management
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Requirements Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Requirements Management

Requirements Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Requirements Management in England over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Requirements Management in England

Requirements Management
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Management within the England region over the 6 months to 12 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +18 20 £550 +4.76% 11
North of England -37 14 £495 - 5
North West -11 11 £498 - 5
South East +4 10 £488 -2.99% 27
South West - 10 £738 - 24
Midlands -10 7 £500 - 8
West Midlands -15 4 £475 - 7
East Midlands -4 3 £500 - 1
East of England -11 3 - - 13
Yorkshire -26 3 £375 -
Requirements Management
UK

Requirements Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (20.97%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Simulink
1 6 (9.68%) Stateflow
2 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.45%) MS Visio
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.45%) Power Platform
2 3 (4.84%) AWS
3 2 (3.23%) Azure
3 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.61%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) ATM
2 1 (1.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) Power BI
2 3 (4.84%) Tableau
3 2 (3.23%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (35.48%) Rational DOORS
2 20 (32.26%) JIRA
3 6 (9.68%) Rational Team Concert
4 3 (4.84%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.61%) Git
5 1 (1.61%) Gradle
5 1 (1.61%) JUnit
5 1 (1.61%) Maven
5 1 (1.61%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (33.87%) Social Skills
2 17 (27.42%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (20.97%) Banking
4 12 (19.35%) Finance
5 9 (14.52%) Aerospace
5 9 (14.52%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (11.29%) Aviation
7 5 (8.06%) Investment Banking
8 3 (4.84%) Back Office
8 3 (4.84%) Front Office
8 3 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (4.84%) Telecoms
9 2 (3.23%) Electronics
10 1 (1.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (33.87%) Business Analyst
2 18 (29.03%) Analyst
3 10 (16.13%) Architect
4 7 (11.29%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (9.68%) Senior
5 6 (9.68%) Senior Business Analyst
6 5 (8.06%) Consultant
6 5 (8.06%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Functional Business Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Requirements Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Requirements Manager
7 4 (6.45%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Technical Business Analyst
8 3 (4.84%) Information Assurance Consultant
8 3 (4.84%) Payments Architect
8 3 (4.84%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.84%) Regulatory Business Analyst
8 3 (4.84%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.84%) Software Architect
9 2 (3.23%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.45%) REST
1 4 (6.45%) Web Services
2 2 (3.23%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.61%) JavaFX
3 1 (1.61%) JSON
3 1 (1.61%) Spring
3 1 (1.61%) Swing
3 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.45%) PACS
1 4 (6.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.84%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.23%) Derivative
3 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.23%) Educational Technology
3 2 (3.23%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (3.23%) Equities
3 2 (3.23%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.61%) Acoustics
4 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.61%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.61%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.61%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (40.32%) Agile
2 20 (32.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (24.19%) Requirements Gathering
4 15 (24.19%) Validation
5 14 (22.58%) Migration
6 10 (16.13%) Requirements Engineering
7 9 (14.52%) Business Analysis
7 9 (14.52%) Mathematics
7 9 (14.52%) Scrum
8 8 (12.90%) Project Management
8 8 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (12.90%) Systems Engineering
9 7 (11.29%) Change Management
9 7 (11.29%) TOGAF
9 7 (11.29%) Waterfall
9 7 (11.29%) Workshop Facilitation
10 6 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (9.68%) Data Analysis
10 6 (9.68%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.90%) C
2 6 (9.68%) Ada
2 6 (9.68%) Fortran
2 6 (9.68%) MATLAB
2 6 (9.68%) SQL
3 3 (4.84%) Java
4 2 (3.23%) C++
5 1 (1.61%) ABAP
5 1 (1.61%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (27.42%) SC Cleared
1 17 (27.42%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.35%) Degree
3 3 (4.84%) CFA
3 3 (4.84%) IIBA
4 2 (3.23%) CESG Certified Professional
4 2 (3.23%) CISSP
5 1 (1.61%) APMP
5 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) QA
2 4 (6.45%) ISO 8583
3 2 (3.23%) GDPR
3 2 (3.23%) IEC 61508
3 2 (3.23%) IEC 62304
3 2 (3.23%) ISO 26262
4 1 (1.61%) GRC
4 1 (1.61%) MiFID
Vendors
1 8 (12.90%) IBM
2 6 (9.68%) Atlassian
2 6 (9.68%) MathWorks
3 4 (6.45%) SAP
3 4 (6.45%) Twitter
4 3 (4.84%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.61%) CheckPoint